Dormy Inn EXPRESS Meguro Aobadai
ドーミーインEXPRESS目黒青葉台
Does Dormy Inn EXPRESS Meguro Aobadai allow tattoos? Yes, covered
You can bathe if the tattoo is completely hidden under a cover seal. The size the property allows is the thing to check before you book — allowances differ enough between chains to decide the matter.
Refused in principle, admitted if a cover seal hides the tattoo completely. Dormy Inn’s seals come in three sizes up to 118×172 mm (4.6×6.8 in), two per guest at most; each property’s FAQ says they are provided “depending on the facility” and that stock is limited, so bring your own.
Show this at the front desk
原則お断りしております。施設により隠し用のシールをご用意しています。シールで隠せる大きさであればご入浴いただけます。【タトゥーシール サイズ】タトゥーシールは原則2枚までにて、ご案内しております。枚数に限りがございますので、御用意できない場合もございます。小：85㎜×105㎜ 中：100㎜×140㎜ 大：118㎜×172㎜
The operator’s own wording, copied from the page named under “How we know” below. Holding up your phone settles the question faster than explaining it.
The bath
A compact bath rather than a big one, and shared by rotation: it is men’s and women’s in turn every day, in time slots the hotel posts (women’s runs from 15:00 to 20:00 on the schedule we read), so check the board before you go down. Even at this size there is a two-tier dry sauna and a chilled cold bath, with a seat in the tub to rest on. The walls carry three of Hiroshige’s Meguro views — Moto-Fuji, Chiyogaike and the Taiko bridge at sunset. Not a spring, whatever the booking sites call it. There is also a private hinoki bath that can be reserved from 15:00 to 01:00 in 40-minute slots.
The sauna is off between 01:00 and 05:00. Free ice lollies after the bath, and free cup noodles.
The hotel
48 rooms — singles, doubles, twins, triples and two kings — in a quiet residential street above Nakameguro. Check-in 15:00, check-out 11:00, and the chain’s buffet breakfast.
What is good about it
- The bath rotates between men and women by the hour, every day. Check the times.
- A private hinoki bath to book, 40 minutes at a time until 01:00.
- Eight minutes from Ikejiri-Ohashi, ten from Nakameguro.
Getting there
Eight minutes from Ikejiri-Ohashi STN on the Den-en-toshi line, or ten from Nakameguro on the Hibiya line and Tokyu Toyoko line.
Ikejiri-Ohashi STN · Tokyu Den-en-toshi line
About 8 minutes.
Nakameguro STN (Hibiya line, Tokyu Toyoko line) about 10 minutes.
Where it is
Tokyo STN
Shinjuku STN
Shibuya STN
Ueno STN
Yamanote Line
↘ Haneda Airport 14 km
Narita Airport 58 km →
Hotel location · Ikejiri-Ohashi STN 8 min
A chain rule, with the largest seals of any chain — when they are in stock
Dormy Inn answers this on every property’s own FAQ page in the same words: refused in principle, but a tattoo that a cover seal hides completely may bathe. The seals come in three sizes — 85×105, 100×140 and 118×172 mm — and the rule is two per guest, so two large ones cover about 400 cm², nearly twice Route Inn’s single seal and more than three times APA’s pair. The Onyado Nono inns are the same company under another name and carry the same answer.
The same FAQ adds two qualifiers that matter: the seals are provided “depending on the facility”, and “stock is limited, so we may not be able to provide them”. Neither is a refusal, but neither is a promise. Bring your own seals of the right size and the rule works in your favour every time; arrive without and you are relying on the drawer at the desk.
What happens when you arrive
Cover the tattoo completely before you go in, with a seal that fits the size the property allows — that figure is in the policy line at the top of this page, and it is the property’s, not ours. Where the seals are sold at the front desk, buy them at check-in rather than at bath time; where they are not, bring your own. A seal that does not cover the whole tattoo counts as no seal, and staff are within their rules to turn you away at the door. Nothing needs declaring, but nothing may show.
How we know
Confirmed Confirmed from official site (the property's own FAQ page; group-wide answer)
Read on: dormy-hotels.com/dormyinn/hotels/meguro/faq/
Booking.com titles this hotel “Hot Spring”. The hotel’s own bath page makes no such claim and describes a plain bath, so that is what is written here.
Best for: A small bath with ukiyo-e on the wall and a private hinoki tub to book
Two large seals cover about 400 cm² — the most of any chain listed here — but the FAQ says stock is limited. Carry your own of the right size.
The bath is shared by rotation in daily time slots; a woman arriving late in the evening may find it on the men’s turn.
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